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Malloy energy plan pits natural gas against oil

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A broad effort by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to reshape energy policy in Connecticut with incentives to boost efficiency and keep down costs has drawn strong opposition from the home heating oil industry, which accuses the state of encouraging residential and business customers to dump local oil suppliers in favor of increasingly popular natural gas.

Thirty-one percent of Connecticut homes heat with gas, compared with 47 percent in Massachusetts and 48 percent in Rhode Island, the state says. And the percentage of commercial and industrial businesses with access to gas is only slightly higher, state officials say.

Connecticut has promoted a "significant amount of public subsidies" for oil with incentives to promote efficiency in buildings heated by oil and tapping into a fund financed by el

Funny shit, in RI I spent years cutting off gas services to houses that didn't' use it, and the same happened thru out the north east. A federal safety mandate... unused gas services to homes inactive for 5 years had to be permanently cut. So now .....

Natural gas and propane aren't the same, @rjoeh. Furnaces that burn one need a different burner if they switch to the other fuel. Those furnaces have blown up or caused bad fires when someone improperly converted them from propane to natural gas or vice versa.

Some call natural gas LPG or Propane. Both do the same job but do not need pipelines for delivery. Meanwhile, heating oil is also delivered in trucks and stored in local owned tanks. The Governor needs to remember that Gas is not the answer to energy costs but just one option in the mix.

atural gas is an excellent energy source for heating homes and businesses. I can't imagine those totals being so low as we have had over 80% of homes heated with natural gas for over 30 years and now there is an increasing amount being heated by geothermal heating systems.